|
|
| Applications |
| Mailing Lists |
| Miscellaneous |
| Operating Systems |
| Programming |
Re: "2M today, 10M with no change in technology"? An informal survey.
From: Deepak Jain <deepak(at)ai.net>
Date: Thu Aug 30 2007 - 14:10:03 EDT
>> On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, David Conrad wrote:
>>
>>> For a few more months. What are upgrade cycles like again? How common
>>> are the MSFC2s?
>> I think we'll find out in a few months, when the "internet breaks" in a
>> whole bunch of places where the admins aren't aware of this issue or
>> operations have been downsized to the point that things are mostly on
>> auto-pilot. I'm guessing there are a good number of Sup2's in use, and
>> that a good % of them think they're fine...as they have 512MB RAM and on
>> the software based routers, that's plenty for current full BGP routes.
>> Anyone want to bet there will be people posting to nanog and cisco-nsp in
>> a few months asking why either the CPU load on their Sup2's has suddenly
>> shot up or why they keep noticing parts of the internet have gone
>> unreachable?...oblivious to this thread.
Date: Thu Aug 30 2007 - 14:10:03 EDT
bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 06:48:43PM -0400, Jon Lewis wrote:
>> On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, David Conrad wrote:
>>
>>> For a few more months. What are upgrade cycles like again? How common
>>> are the MSFC2s?
>> I think we'll find out in a few months, when the "internet breaks" in a
>> whole bunch of places where the admins aren't aware of this issue or
>> operations have been downsized to the point that things are mostly on
>> auto-pilot. I'm guessing there are a good number of Sup2's in use, and
>> that a good % of them think they're fine...as they have 512MB RAM and on
>> the software based routers, that's plenty for current full BGP routes.
> > private replies suggest (w/ lots of handwaving) that perhaps 20-35% > of the forwarding engines in use might fit this catagory. >
>> Anyone want to bet there will be people posting to nanog and cisco-nsp in
>> a few months asking why either the CPU load on their Sup2's has suddenly
>> shot up or why they keep noticing parts of the internet have gone
>> unreachable?...oblivious to this thread.
> > that would be a sucker bet >
If Cisco could ship enough units when asked, I'd say their next couple of quarters are in the bag... but since they have such huge lead times..... well, I am guessing a lot of people will start considering taking partial routes.
Transit providers would do well to have a distribute-list or similar configured to offer these guys when they call rather than trying to engineer something on an ICB basis.
Deepak Received on Thu Aug 30 14:13:46 2007
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Mon Oct 29 2007 - 14:04:58 EDT
|
Contact Us Legal Notices Order Services Online Pantek Home Privacy Policy IT news Site Map Pantek Library |